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On Sunday, October 11, 2015 10:42:29 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I'm going to go learn Spanish (ideally Mexican, but whatever).  Any
> suggestions?  I'm probably going to use memrise for the vocab
> memorization part, so I'm particularly looking for suggestions on
> the grammar learning part.

I don't know about programs for learning languages. My favorite method is to 
get a book in the language I'm learning, and the same book in a language I 
already know, and read them together. Of course, this is in addition to 
talking with people who speak the language.

What languages do you already know? Knowing another Romance language will help 
immensely; knowing another Indo-European language also helps, as the six 
person-number forms of verbs are similar among most of them.

Spanish verb tenses are similar to English ones. There's an extra distinction 
in the past tenses, and the present participle comes in adverbial and 
adjectival forms, but progressives, past subjunctives, and conditionals are 
formed similarly, and even "I'm going to <verb>" translates literally into 
Spanish.

Pierre
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